About this title: In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures "Suite Francaise" and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. "All Our Worldly Goods", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099520443ISBN:0099520443
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099520443ISBN:0099520443
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 272 pages. Presents a story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of france from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. (Paperback) read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780701182144ISBN:0701182148
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780701182144ISBN:0701182148
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 02/07/2009
ISBN-13:9780099520443ISBN:0099520443
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099520443ISBN:0099520443
Description: New. Presents a story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780701182137ISBN:070118213X
Description: New. In haunting ways, this novel prefigures "Suite Francaise", but it is a complete and compelling novel in its own right, and was originally published in France in 1947, after the author's death. It is a gripping story of family life, money and love, set... read more
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"If you can believe it, this surpasses Suite Francais, in my opinion. It is a complete novel, unlike SF, which was never finished, and it is beautifully crafted and written. It follows a small village in France, a couple and two interconnected families from just prior to WWI through to the commencement of WWII, and provides deep insight into the minds, mores and lifestyles of the French bourgouise class at that time. It is a scathing condemnation of the French upper/middle class in many ways, delivered with a velvet touch by Irene Nemirovsky, a native Russian Jew who grew up in France and died in Auschwitz. I was also reminded of what I recently read in Jeff Shaara's "To the Last Man" about how war was perceived as glorious and noble prior to the horrors of WWI; this book captures the French civilian mindset at just the time when that perception was being brutally overturned. I'm off now to read Nemirovsky's others."
"This book picks up where Jane Austen leaves off. She does it with her own characters and they are French. Our misclassed lovers have their happy beginning when the factory owner's son decides to ditch the fiancee his parents chose for her dowry and to please the patriarch for the merchant's daughter. They accept their exile and his disinheritance and live happily ever after meeting head on all sorts of difficulties through the early part of the 20th century.
Nemirovsky has an eloquent way of showing us that people everywhere and in every time are awfully alike. She gracefully moves her characters through their generational roles without a hitch."
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